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Take a look around your home. Do you have items that are still there just because — you don’t have a place or use for them anymore but tossing them out seems so harsh.

This is where the Web site, www.freecycle.org comes in handy. The site, which is composed of local groups around the world, was created to allow people to share their unwanted items with each other for free.

The site’s only rule is that all the items must be free, legal and appropriate for all ages.

Roberta McCulloch-Dews
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MiamiHerald.com | 02/25/2007 | Finally, free stuff that’s truly free, as in free!

Gotta move and unload a bunch of furniture fast?

Kids growing out of their clothes and no friends to give hand-me-downs?

Need an extra car seat and don’t want to spend the cash?

Hundreds of people in and around Hollywood have been tapping into the kindness of strangers through a website called Hollywood Freecycle

BY CARRIE ANN PEREZ
Special to The Miami Herald
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Although Craigslist posts giveaways as well as sales, Freecycle is totally anti-cash.

The site is about ecology as much as economy, applauded by consumers aiming to keep as many usable items as possible out of landfills.

‘’The items are seemingly ridiculous,'’ says David Cheng, a Washington ‘’moderator'’ who oversees the Washington Freecycle group. ‘’They are smaller things than furniture: diaper-related stuff, paint, plastic food containers, old cat food. A lot of people don’t want anything to go to waste.'’

By ANNIE GROER
The Washington Post
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An interview on londonist.com focuses on Matthew Smith, a London resident who’s been repairing broken iPods and giving the devices away to London’s Freecycle community (a system centered around giving an item that’s no longer necessary away or exchanging it rather than disposing of it).

Smith, who began collecting broken iPods when his iPod’s hard drive afailed after he attached it to a magnetic holder in his car, advertised on the Freecycle boards for a few broken iPods in order to get his working again and actually received more iPods than he needed. After repairing the hard drive on his own iPod, he found he could generally mix and match spare parts for other units and give them back to the community while running other chores and errands throughout the day.

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COSHOCTON - Reduce, reuse, and recycle.

The three “R’s” may not seem significant to some, but to more than 3 million registered with an international recycling network, they mean the world.

Freecycle.org is a Web site dedicated to “build a worldwide gifting movement that reduces waste, saves precious resources & eases the burden on our landfills while enabling our members to benefit from the strength of a larger community.” The larger community in itself is made up of several different localized communities in which people can join and get or post old stuff that they would otherwise trash.

By JOSHUA CHANEY
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Freecycle: save money, and the planet

By the end of 2000, the United States census bureau estimated the earth’s population at 6,034,636,551 and scientists around the world warned that the human race had exceeded, by 20 percent, the earth’s capacity to sustain its consumption of energy and renewable resources, assimilate its waste and give space to it’s infrastructure.
Disregarding these facts, earth’s population has continued to grow at a rate of 4.2 births a second until by the time this was written around 6,573,420,650 people were draining the earth of the natural resources we all depend on for life.
So what can one person do to help?

By: Jeri Field
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